Deep Gene at Botany 2002

The dual goal of this all-day workshop is to introduce the large
contingent of graduate students attending to each other and to the
faculty, and then to address some cutting-edge intellectual issues
involving cross-overs between phylogenetic and genomic research.
We plan four main informal sessions that will be mostly discussion
with some brief presentations.

Tentative Agenda:

8:30

Gather in room for coffee and informal conversation

8:45

Introduction to the day; logistics

9:00

Once around the room for self-introductions and
brief statements of current research interests (3 informal minutes
per person, please )

10:30

Coffee break

10:45

Choosing new genomic model systems in light of
phylogeny. What new genomic and phylogentic tools can be brought
to bear?

12:00

Lunch in room -- informal discussion

1:00

Gene Ontology: how should genes be named? How can they be
compared
between genomes? Homology versus function.